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It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private Vact'ce, among the helpless too poor to pur- fchase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to Tlnd out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. | When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. K‘!mer8tCc..Bing- .umton, N. Y. The egula- fifty oen. and no..»*ot swain,-.^**. doTwsues *-e scid cv origgists. Don't make any mistake, but r* ber the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. er’s Swamp-Root, and the ad- Binghampton, N. Y., on every OTICE! We want every man and women in the United States Interested In. the cure of Opium, Whiskey or other drug habits, either for themselves or friends, to have one of Dr. Woolley’s hooks on these dis eases. Write Dr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga.. Box 287, and one will be sent yon free. By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D.D. right at Jesus. Bar’s a Oo«l ye can love." Oh, yes, the^e men of weak kneed theology onn l >ok at Jesus and |..ve him like that, but the trouble is that Is no' .he place to stop. They go a little i jv.ae and still a little fur ther and say, '.lertus Is so good that he saves us w ether we love and honor hint or not.’’ They are almost In the same podtloa as was one of the officers of my rog neii^ in the Spanlah-Amer- icau war .vheii he said to me: “Chap- la hi, II lieve in your Christ. I do not s. :ve k n as I ought to, hut I believe if t 1 tui -hot in this war God will say: Los Angeles, tak, Aug. -7.—In this , j 8 a p 0or f e u ow who gave up sermon the preacher takes to task the hls i re fol . hl8 CO untry. No man can spiritual Indifference of professors o. U10re f 0 r love of hls native land religion and shows the evil results of ,, that. 1 will save him on account their example In social and husln ; ' f his shed blood.’" Mark you this— "I i.<t on account of Christ’s blood, but on locouut of man’s blond. Un-to-Date Market Your Heat on Ice. {it;, i>i* i':*, till* cured Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, S or breakfast, or some nice I’ork chop •r Pork Steak, or some fine Kansas MrfCity Beef, good and mellow, or Cher okee Bee . Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, ■ Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can be got. Heavy and Fancy -^Groceries, Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Beans and Peas, white and colored. 3Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays. • Can fill your whole bill at our place. ^Goods delivered on time. ^ ^JjYours for business, 1^. W. Phone No. 6o. Residence No. 23. Host Anything And a little of everything is now being shown in my|line:j , All the newJcoiiceptions*atid|^3 fads ~i- ;..In!The Jewelry2Line..| | |JFrom the** cheapest iworth;^ 11 havinglJto ||the f]very^'finest specimens and grades.| ‘Re- 3 (pairing done by an Ex 'ert.J 53 Thos. H. ^^Westrope, life. The text Is Revelation 111, lb, would that thou wert cold or hot." God la love. The Bible declarej 1 . Whether the divine Father’s children are saints or sinners they arc sail en shrined In hls parental affect -ns. God’s love Is like unto that of the earthly parent who one day overheard his little girl saying to h r brother, “Now, Charley, be a good boy or papa will not love you.” With that, the father answered: “No. Nellie, you must not tell your brother that. I do not love you children ee use you are good or hate you because you are bad. I love you, whether you are good or bad, because you are ray children. When you are good, hen you make me very happy. W * n you are bad, then you make me ery sad. But I still love you jr. ’ the same." God loves hls prodigals, though they are prodigals, but he loves his saints with a delighted Joy. But, though Gol loves all hls chil dren, there Is one class about whom he is especially concerned. As the wor ried mother four or live times during the night lights her lamp and goes to look at the little slek patient and to feel the brow of the fevered child God again and again turns his anxious eyes toward certain of his wayward ones. And where do you think these divine eyes are most pleadingly look ing? Toward the social outcasts? Oh, uol Toward the drunkards who are staggering and hiccoughing toward their filthy tenements? No. Toward the murderers in the criminal dock about to be tried for their lives? No. Toward the thief who lu the evening hours knocks down the pedestrian or toward the safe breaker who with his dark lantern is making his way through the cellars of the bank he In tends to rob? No, no, uol These sin ners by the very enormity of their crimes may be h*d to the mercy seat if we only go after them In the right way. God’s most yearning looks are Lankina Unto Jmu*. No sinner was over saved from eter nal death except by the divine atone ment. Now, my friends. It Is about time for some of you to stiffen up the backbone of your theology. It Is about time for some of us to rWIize that only the blood of Jesus Christ ran cleanse us ns white as the driven snow. Theft* is a stream in Corsica called the river Uestonla, which 1ms the remarkable power of turning white everything which Is dropped into Its clear waters. 'Hie cane which falls from your hand into it becomes a white stick. The watch which slips out of your pocket into it becomes a white metal. A trav eler tells us that an Iron bar dropped into those waters at once becomes white as a silver scepter. So every one who Is really cleansed by Christ’s others have taken their land.” Thus, when I go into the business world, I find thousands of modern Laodlceans who care not how dishonest they are If they do not fall Into disrepute by being more dishonest than their fel low men. The question of right or wrong enters not Into their financial makeup. The question w th them is, “Is It feasible, from a reputebusi ness man’s standpoint, to steal this or that or the other thing and not be so cially degraded?” Mast Be Positively Hoaest. What U true of some dishonest busi ness men Is absolutely true In refer ence to some dishonest political candi dates. I see the political strife going on in a large city. One of the parlies has fallen Into such disrepute that In order to win at the polls its leaders de ckle to nominate as a candidate one who Is not of their kind. So they go and offer the nomination to a well known Christian church member. In nine cases out of ten what does that nominee do? Does he go to the polls and bribe voters? Oh; no. That would not be honest. But be does commit a crime In the sight of God which Is Just as heinous. Instead of coming out flat footed for an honest election be be comes a modern political Laodicean. He shuts his eyes to the dishonesties that are being done In his name. He found In the collection plates, but In the church members’ laxity In refer ence to amusements. When a man be comes Indifferent to God In reference to hls pleasures, Inevitably he becomes Indifferent to all other deeds. Lastly, I remark that the lukewarm Christianity of our modern Laodlceans is demonstrated In reference to the professed disciples of Jesus Christ, neglecting to win their brethren from their sins. If the negative Christians are spending an evening with a party of friends, they may not tell the lewd story themselves, but they will not re buke that story when they hear some one else telling it. If they see another traveling the crowded paths of sin, they may not follow, but they do not go forth and as a Christian friend say: “Brother, this is not the way to Christ. Let me lead you into the right path.” In other words, in their friend ship to Christ they are like a chame leon-changing their colors to suit their surroundings. A Woman’s Stony Heart. The religion of these modern Laod- iceans Is like the wavering friendship of Marie Louise, one of the most con temptible characters of all history. The second wife of Napoleon Bona parte clung to no one. She had a 1 heart of putty. As soon as she left her father's palace she forgot her father, Weak Hearts Are due to indigestion. N'nety-nln« of every one hundred people who have heart trouble can remember when it was simple indlfe^ tion. It is a scientific fact that ell cases of heart disease, not orgsnic, are not only traceable to, but are the direct result of laib gestion. All food taken Into the stomach which falls of perfect digestion ferments and swells the stomach, puffing It upagalnatthe heart. This Interferes with the action of the heart, and in the course of time that delicate but vital organ becomes disessed. Mr. D. Kiuble. of Nevada. O , anrt: I had stomach trouble and was In a bad state aa I had heart trouble with It. I took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for about four months and It cured me. Kodol Digests Whet You Eat and relieves the stomach of all nervous strain and the heart of all pressure. Bottles only. $ t .00 Size holdlne 2 V. times the trial size, which sells for 50c, Prepered by E. 0. DeWITT AGO., OHIOAQO. ProtectYonrself e s • says, “I am not responsible because I B uuuer. simply remain silent at this political I her Mothers and sisters and her step- corruption." Now, my friends, these teachings of my text practically mean this: A man must be positively honest in all his financial dealings. He must be positively honest lu seeing thtft all those who work lu his name are acting Against loss by accident, sick- jness, fire, storms." and leave blood becomes, as in the river Kesto- | honestly, else God will have none of nia, white as the driven snow. But, . him. Mere negative respectability in mark you, as the old southern mammy j (jod's sight does not measure up to his said, it Is only by looking to Jesus, H tandard. who is a God to love, that you and I j t00( ( jjat the appalling spiritual can Imeonje purged and cleansed and uegativeness of the modern Laodicean washed until we become whiter than most freqncytly demonstrated in snow. It is surely time for some of mau - s relation to the amusement ques- ns to renter our hopes upon the cross, t j^ n Where there Is one lukewarm which alone can save us from eternal death. Many years ago the British admi ralty sent the man-oT-war Thetis to Mediterranean waters to hunt up a hoal or reef or bank that had been reported by some fishermen off the coast of Italy and mark it upon the chart. The vessel sailed back and forth without beiug able to locate the dangerous reef. The captain returned to England and declared no such rocks existed, but the first lieutenant of the Thetis thought differently. He begged the privilege of continuing the Investi gation. He labored on until at last he located those rocks, anil was pro moted for the service he had done the world’s shipping. The old captain of mother. When her husband was de throned, Napoleon Bonaparte at once passed out of her life. 6he had no fur ther use for him and almost Immedi ately formed an affection for Count Neippert, one of Napoleon’s bitterest foes. She would not write to her ex- ' | lied husband, and when Napoleon re- ' your family comfortably “fixed” turned from Elba she was In mortal terror lest her sins should find her out. I j- 1 • When the king of Rome, her only son. | when > 0U die ’ ^ ^vesting in was dying, hls mother cared no more 1 for him than If he had been a peasant’s child. When Count Neippert died, Ma- ' rie Louise almost at once formed a | sinful alliance with another member of the Austrian court. Her heart seemed to have turned from a heart of putty to one of stone. Her affections were as the waters of the shallowest of brooks, which could gurgle and smile no mat 1 ter what sun shone upon them. Her loving power was as dead as Is the Next to Shu ford & LeMaster, not turned toward those who are'In j the Thetis obstinately declared that open rebellion against life name, hut i these rocks were purely chimerical and toward those who are chronically and never existed. “If I ever go near their systematically Indifferent. Those who I supposed site I shall sail over them ire simply negative to the divine call to prove I am right," said he. A few ; of love are harder to reach than those mouths later the Thetis was conveying who deride God or curse him. Can the British ambassador to the city of 1 you make any other deduction than | Naples. One stormy night the captain 1 this from Christ’s message to the found that he was near tins supposed church members at Luodicea? Of all reef. He headed directly toward it as the seven churches in Asia there was lie said. “Now I will prove that lieu- Christlan who will dishonor Christ In hls financial dealings there are five, ten, fifteen or even twenty who will dishonor him when the day’s work Is done or when out on a summer vaca tion. And tlie amusement sins of the American Laodicean at home are as nothing compared to those American . . Laodlceans’ sins when thev are travel- I ieart of a dr,ed U P unmim >' wh]oh lli “ lug in Europe or Asia or ‘in Africa or i ^n tmrietl a thousand years In one of in any foreign land. Let me Illustrate ^Kyptlan pyramids and is now pui my thought to you In a practical way. We are American tourists in Spain, or, bringing the statement a little neai'- , or home, in Mexico. Sunday morning | w f th God : we sml,e 00 God,s emjmles has rolled around. What are you go- lug to do? Will you attend the Prot estant church, as you would do If at home? “No." you say, “I guess not. I have tickets for the bullfight. Why, one of the finest matadoros In the world Is going to light today. I will under a glass case In the Cairo muse ! um. So with some of us. Like Marie Louise, we smile on God when we are an INSURANCE POLICY. I represent the best companies. • • • C. ROSS. not one more excoriated lu Revelation than was this church. Of all the east ern churches there was not one from outside appearance whose transgres sions were not more heinous. Modern Luodlceana. Modern Laodlceans, these sinners of : lukewarm Christianity and tepid mo- 1 rality, at a distance can be likened to a beautifully polished mahogany or rose wood table. To the'-Casual observer it seems to be worth almost Its weight tenant a fabricator:’’ The ship sailed on for a few hours, then came the grating sound of shallow water, then a crash! The Thetis was a helpless wreck. Most of the crew were saved, but the foolish captain would not allow himself to be saved, to meet certain disgrace. "He perished,” said Dr. Stoughton, “a victim to hls own unbe lief.” Thus thousauds upon thousands of immortal souls will perish on ac- •ount of their lukewarm acceptation of when we are with God’s enemies. We are never God’s true, firm disciples. We never uphold him. We never fight j for him. We are never ready to die > for him as Christ died for us. Oh. that we might be faithful to God in re- ! buklng the sins of others as well as never get another chance to see him.” I i rue to him In reference to the per is that so? What If you do not get sonftl notions of our own lives! another chance? Ought you to go and Mould that we might be as true to see one of the most brutal exhibitions God’s love in every way as Dr. Joseph in the world, where men and horses are Leldy, the great naturalist, was true j often horribly mangled? Because oth- noble affection for dumb brutes, er people do wrong In Spain and Mex- Son 0 years ago Dr. Leldy was lectur- 1 ico can you afford to do wrong on the on natural history to the students : question of your vacation amusements? Swnrthmore college, about ten ! Sunday at home comes around. The ; miles out of Philadelphia, where he | communion of the Lord’s supper Is ( lived. To Illustrate hls subject he took to lie celebrated at your church. A | into the classroom three little mud tur- 1 ties out of a nearby pond. After the \ n A evtif party of friends is going down to the bench. What are you going to do? Stay away and go to church, as you ought, or go off on Sabbath desecra tion? 1 know of an elder of one of the largest Presbyterian churches of the west not only staying away from church on the Sabbath day, but when MURRAY IRON MIXTURE qp?ow is the time to take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is Mnrnty'rt Iran WT7 turn. It makes S re blood and gets rid of that tired sling. At all drug stores .ftOo « Bottle or direct from The MurrajiDrug Co., Columbia, S. C. TBS "MSS” COTTON PUSS! MBPLEST, STRONAEST, BEST Tmb Murhay Ginning System Alas, FatStrt, ConfenMr*. Etc. OIBBKJ MACHINERY CO. t CaltantNia. B. C. in gold, but when you closely examine ! the cross. They are not directly ene- 1 the members of hls church were ns- the same you find It Is simply veneered mies of Jesus Christ. They belong to semhllng f°r communion he rode past with rosewood or mahogany, cut as what Is called the liberal order of that church on the top of a tnllyho to thin as paper. They are like contrary Christlaus. They believe Christ was ! sou,e hi* eastern friends out to winds, tantalizing the sea captain he- 1 born, that Christ died, that Christ rose s0< * the city sights. As a church offl- again from the dead, but they do not do ^ ou ov e r sin thus? Wednesday believe that Christ Is the only begot- ‘ PV, “ nln « come8 nround - n 18 P™?** ten Sou of God and the on^ way of eternal life. And "Except ye believe ye shall all likewise perish,” for the Bible distinctly declares the necessity of believing in Christ as 11 Saviour and in Christ alone. calmed near the equator. Here It Is a little puff of wind, yonder It Is a little puff, off to the west Is another little puff. All these little puffs come from different directions. But before the shiii’s Hull can he ti’lnxmed and filled, like the cheeks of a schoolboy blowing soap bubbles, these puffs of wind die away and the ship’s keel moves not. They are like people of shallow Christian experience whom Christ describes under the figure of grain growing on stony ground which. Lax la Baslacaa I’rlaelplea. But we also find these modern Laodlceans wonderfully negative in reference to their business principles. Girls and Boys Wanted To Make Monoy, Call at the Shoe Store any afternoon between four and five o’clock. Any boy can make from $1.00 to $3.00 a week. The R, S. Lipscomb'Shoe Co. erlng the roots, dies before the merid ian has been reached by the sun In the heavens. Now, the purpose of this sermon Is to describe some of the causes of the languid condition of these modern Laodlceans. I am not bxlny going to preach to the great sin ners or to the great saints, but to those who arc simply lukewarm or negative or appallingly indifferent to God’s love and God’s commandments. May God help me to move some out of their sinful lethargy. May he fire with holy zeal the lukewarm hearts of our modern Laodlceans, whom Christ de nounces with God’s bitterest contempt und scorn and opprobrium. The appalling negatlveness of my text can well be applied. In the first place, to those of weak kneed theology. It can b« applied to those who cannot quite make up their minds whether Christ Is God or a very good man, whether Christ Is “the only begotten Son of the Father” or merely one of many different manifestations of God’s love of whom Mohammed and Confu cius and Buddha and Vishnu are other manifestations and almost aa good. With the old southern mammy’s Ideas of Christ they are In heartiest sym pathy. When her young mistress’ lit tle child died and the f antic mother thought her daughter was lost forever, the old slave said: “Honey, durlln’, ye ain’t right. Dan's a drefful mistake somewhar. Why, de Lord ain’t like what ye think. He loves ye, honey. Why, Jes’ see how I loves ye, an’ I ain’t better’n him ns made me. Dar Jes* ain’t but one t’lng to come to, an’ dut ar’s Jesus. Jes’ come right down to whar dls pore old darky has to stay allers. It’s a good place, darlln*. Look ou account of the acarclty of noil cov,?^ Suml “ > ' ,,, " r, “ h,e f a- a,-.--- aa. ,, found wending their way to their church pews. Every Wednesday even ing they may attend the midweek prayer meeting. But the way they act inside the church and outside of the church may nhve no more similarity than the nature of a striped furred leopard cau be compared to the af fectionate whinny of the Shetland pony whom your children are petting at the barn door. Now, I am not as serting that these modern Laodlceans have no business principles. I am not asserting that these men are any worse than their business associates, but I do assert that they will be just as dis honest as they can be In their financial affairs and yet preserve their social respectability. Some time ago I wag turning over the pages of a popular magazine. There I saw perhaps half a dozen pictures of men who arc among the bo called re spectable thieves of this country. From an old Californian many years ago I had heard about men stealing thou sands upon thousands of acres of land from the United States government, hut then I did not believe It, because I lived In the crowded east. But after I came west and learned of the vast distances of those" unoccupied lands I began to realize how It was done. In that magazine the writer not only gave the names of the plunderers, but also told the numbers of acres stolen by each of these Individuals whose pic tures he presented. I go to one of .hose men and say: “How did you get this land? Why Is It yours?” “Oh,” he says. “I fenced It In.” “Why did you fence It In? Did you have any right to do so?” "No.” he answers, “except the right of taking government land, ns hundreds and thousands of meeting night. A card party or a dance is to be given the same evening. Which will you choose to attend? These Illustrations are not Imaginary. These conditions meet us as church members almost every month of our lives. In deciding how we shall solve the amusement question, nearly all of us decide whether we will be positive Christians or negative modern Lnodl- eeans, cursed by a lukewarm allegi ance to God. God’s loathing for such characters Is unmitigated. In effect, he says: “The murderer, the blas phemer, the thief and the social out cast are not so Injurious as you are. Men know them for what they are, but you misrepresent religion, you commit the outrage of misrepresenting me to the world. You should be the light of the world, but you are misleading lights.” lx* me read to you God’s own words In reference to the ancient church of laaodlcea: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. So, then, because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth.” Could any denunciation be more powerfully expressed? A Dyin* Cfcarefe. Oh, that today the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ would become more positive upon the questions that are making so many church members luke warm Christians! Some time ago I read of an artist who was asked to paint a picture of a spiritually dying church. He painted a church building, cathedral-llke in its proportions. This prosperohs church had Its tall towers. Its stained glass windows and Its wealthy parishioners assembling for worship, but near the front door of this fashionable church the artist painted a collection box marked “For eign Missions." Over the aperture of this box the artist drew a simple spider’s web. The Idea of that artist was self evident. But, though that was a powerful picture, I do not believe the artist pictured the greatest curse of our modern Laodlceans by which Sa tan destroys the spirituality of our prominent churches. Tills evil Is not lecture he locked these little turtles up I in hls laboratory, Intending to turn them loose next day. That night Dr. , Leldy was summoned to Germany by cable. He bail to catch the early bout i for New York next morning. There was no train out that night to the col lego town. So, rather than let hls lit- | tie friends, the mud turtles, starve to 1 death In the closet of which he only had the key. Dr. Leldy walked over the Pennsylvania hills to the college , town and then walked buck and caught the early morning train for New York, i "Ah," said he to the college janitor, "I : could not go away and sail for Europe and think of those little turtles starv- J lug to de«th in my closet." “A little thing,” you say. Yes, It was ! a little act, but It was a noble act, j which showed a tender heart. Thus , may our lore to Christ be demoustrat- | ed. May It lie a positive love. May j we be true to him In the teachings of 1 the cross. May we be true to him In : the financial duties of the store. May | we l>e true to him In our pleasures. Last, hut not least, may we he true to Christ In rebuking sin wherever It Is ! found. And In our rebukes, may we i strive to lead the sinner Into the spirit I of Christ’s sacrifice. [Copyright, 1905, by Louis Klopsch.] warn To l-u r ome ■■■ # Your pivtuies tastfully and artistically and yet at a mode'ate price ts sometimes a problem. Permit us to s"lve it. We make :::::: PICTURE FRAMES We carry a lanre le pictures idlngs suitable for all kinds And we frame •took of mottle of pictures Prices range from 4 ets. per foot up We will make and frame the pic ture or make the frame. The cost of framing will oe only sightly higher. A few half-inch SxlU oval frames In either ebony or gilt, tilted with glass and backs at 5o cents. : : : : : ■Mi Line hi CTcirr mam POimKlDNEYCDRB Makes Kidneys and Bladder Bight The Greatest Camp Meeting Ground. The Methodist Elder Stokes held the first camp meeting in Ocean Grove, N. J., thirty-six years ago. Despite the building of hotel and cottage, it still retains its title of “camp meeting." and rightly, for with the chining of June days a part of the plateau on which It stands becomes a tented field, where 20,000 or more dwell under can vas until the chill winds of autumn cause them to seek their Inland homes. Here is a city whose mayor Is a bishop, whose councilmen are minis ters and deacons, not one of whom receives a dollar for bis services. It has no public debt, no ward heelers, no elections.—Four Track News. Physical Effects of Temperance. In connection with Sir Frederick Treves’ experiences among the troops in South Africa he alluded to the enor mous column of 80,000 men who march ed to the relief of Ladysmith. Those who were 1he first to fall out were not the fat or the thin, the young or the old or the short or the tall, but those who drank. So well marked was this fact that the drinkers could have been no more clearly distinguishable If they had worn placards on their backs, which goes to prove that spirits, what ever else may be their effect, do not give stamina, as so many people be lieve.—London Queen. No business can possibly be successful that is not adver tised. This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are gome merchants in this community whose experience apparently contradicts the statement. The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained any degree of success they have advertised. They have let people know what they had to sell, what they were here for and what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to the thorough ness with which they have done this and met the conditions of their competitors they have suc ceeded. If they have used the newspa pers they have worked with the best tools so for as getting pub licity is concerned. If they have worked without the newspapers they have been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile »eed planted in fertile ground, carefully watered, will thrive and bear fruit. A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised will succeed. The law of growth is as certain and inexurabls in one case as the other.